{"product_id":"dead-pledges-annie-mcclanahan-9781503606586","title":"Dead Pledges: Debt, Crisis, and Twenty-First-Century Culture","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eDead Pledges\u003c\/i\u003e is the first book to explore the ways that U.S. culture--from novels and poems to photojournalism and horror movies--has responded to the collapse of the financialized consumer credit economy in 2008. Connecting debt theory to questions of cultural form, this book argues that artists, filmmakers, and writers have re-imagined what it means to owe and to own in a period when debt is what makes our economic lives possible. Encompassing both popular entertainment and avant-garde art, the post-crisis productions examined here help to map the landscape of contemporary debt: from foreclosure to credit scoring, student debt to securitized risk, microeconomic theory to anti-eviction activism. A searing critique of the ideology of debt, \u003ci\u003eDead Pledges\u003c\/i\u003e dismantles the discourse of moral obligation so often invoked to make us repay. Debt is no longer a source of economic credibility, it contends, but a system of dispossession that threatens the basic fabric of social life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Annie McClanahan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1503606589\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781503606586\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Stanford University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/09\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 248\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.82lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.57d","brand":"Annie McClanahan","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43985299308799,"sku":"9781503606586","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_36492fbd-a6aa-4dbc-a8c0-e51cd191416a.jpg?v=1683276742","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/dead-pledges-annie-mcclanahan-9781503606586","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}